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Cardiac vs Pyroxene - What's the difference?

cardiac | pyroxene |

As nouns the difference between cardiac and pyroxene

is that cardiac is a person with heart disease while pyroxene is pyroxene.

As an adjective cardiac

is pertaining to the heart.

cardiac

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to the heart.
    • the cardiac arteries
  • Pertaining to the cardia.
  • (medicine, archaic) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

    • Derived terms

    * cardiac arrest * cardiac muscle * cardiac plexus * cardiac tamponade

    Related terms

    * acardiac * cardiology * cardiopulmonary resuscitation * courage * endocardium * myocardium * pericardium

    Antonyms

    * noncardiac

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person with heart disease.
  • (medicine) A medicine that excites action in the stomach.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    pyroxene

    English

    (wikipedia pyroxene)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineralogy) Any of a group of crystalline minerals containing silicates of iron, magnesium and calcium.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
    • By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano.